Anchoring means for wire tensioners



March 9,1926. 1,575,922

4. w. LENLING ANCHORING MEANS FOR WIRE TENSIONERS Original Filed August 1, 1924 Patented Mar. 9, 1925.

i JOHN w. LENLING, or erao'romsourn DAKOTA.

ANCHORING MEANS roa WIRE rnnsronnas.

Original application filed. August 1, 1924, Serial No. 729,657. Divided and this application filed February 21, 1925. Serial No. 10,921.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN NV. LENLING, a citizen of the United States, residing at Groton, in the county of Brown and State of South Dakota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Anchoring Means for ire Tensioners; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This application forms a division of my pending U. S. application, Serial No. 729,657, filed August 1st, 1924. This pending application is now devoted, due to the requirement for division, to the protection of a wire tensioning device, whereas this divisional application is directed to novel means for connecting the wire tensioning device with an anchoring stake or the like, it being understood that the present invention might also be used for connecting practically any kind of a body with an anchoring stake or the equivalent of the latter.

The object of the invention is to .pro vide an extremely simple and inexpensive construction for connecting the body with a stake and providing means also to be engaged by the operators foot, so that he may readily force the stake into the ground.

With the foregoing in view, the invention, resides in the novel subject matter hereinafter described and claimed, the description being supplemented by-t-he accompanying drawing.

Figure 1 is a side elevation showing the anchoring means attached to a tensioning device of the type disclosed in the aboveidentified pending application.

Figure 2 is a top plan view of the parts shown in Fig. 1.

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the anchoring means.

In the drawing above briefly described, B designates an elongated body to be an chored, said body in the present disclosure, constituting part of a wire-tensioning device and having a suitable connection C at one end for engagement with the wire. For anchoring the other end of the body B to a stake S or to some equivalent memher, I provide a novelconstruction and arrangement of parts. A pair of elongated metal plates 1 are secured by bolts or" the like 2; to opposite sides of the body 15 adjacent the last named end of said body. said plates being bent laterally inward at 3 around this end of the body and being then extended from the latter to form a pair of parallel arms 4. These arms have outwardly bowed portions 5 between their ends to embrace the stake S and have their terminals 6 extended beyond said portions 5 to be engaged by the users foot, so that downward pressure may be exerted to force the stake S into the ground. The arms are of course clamped to the stake and this may well be accomplished by passing a pair of bolts 7 through said arms at opposite sides of their bowed portions 5.

By providing the construction shown and described, it will be seen that simple and inexpensive, yet efiicient and desirable means have been provided for anchoring any desired body to a stake or the like, said means being adapted to be engaged by the users foot, so that said stake or otherv member may be forced into the ground.

As excellent results are obtainable from the details disclosed, they are preferably followed, but within the scope of the inven tion as claimed, modifications may of course be made. i

p I claim I:

1. In an anchor for a body, a pair of elongated metal plates having laterally spaced end portions adapted to be secured to opposite sides of the body near one end thereof, said plates being bent laterally inward on lines transverse to their width to abut said end of the body and being then directed laterally in a direction parallel to said laterally spaced end portions to provide a pair of stake-clamping arms, said arms having transversely disposed outwardly bowed stake-embracing portions between their ends, the free terminals of said arms projecting beyond said stake-embracing portion and being adapted to be engaged by the users foot to permit him toforce the stake into the ground, and means for clamping the outwardly bowed portions of said arms against opposite sides of the stake.

2. In an anchor for a body, a pair of elongated metal plates having fiat laterally spaced parallel end portions adapted to be secured to opposite sides of the body near one end thereof, said plates being bent lat-- erallyinward at right angles on transverse lines to abut said end of the body and then foot topermit him to forc'ethe stake into the directed laterally at right angles in a direc-- ground; and clamping'bolts passing through lion parallel to said parallel end portions said arms at opposite sides of said staketo provide a pair of stake-elaniping arms, embracing portions to clamp said portions said arms having outwardly bowed stakeagainst thestake.

' el'nbraeing portions between their ends, the In testimony whereof I have hereuntofree terminals of said arms projecting beaffixed my signature.

i yond said stake-embracing portions and being adapted to be engaged by the users a, i JOHNW'KLENLING. 

